<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, 10 May 2019 at 21:26, Markus <<a href="mailto:selfishseahorse@gmail.com">selfishseahorse@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
What kind of name are displayed on these buses? Around here, buses,<br>
trains etc. usually only display the route number (or route type) and<br>
their destination (e.g. "701 Le Prese Stazione", "201 Villeneuve", "IR<br>
Chur" or "IC 3 Basel SBB"). Route names (e.g. "Bernina Express",<br>
"MetropolitanLine" or "Marunouchi Line") seem to be quite rare.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Usually destination. Except for the Cardigan Town Service. But with PTV2 routes split into</div><div>two (or more relations), one for each direction, this isn't a problem. The bus from Cardigan</div><div>to Aberystwyth says "Aberystwyth" and the bus from Aberystwyth to Cardigan says "Cardigan."</div><div>Elsewhere I've lived the bus might say XXX to YYY via ZZZ.</div><div><br></div><div>I like the idea that the name of the bus, as shown on the map, is the same as the name of the</div><div>bus, as shown on the bus. It means I can look at the map and know what to look for on an</div><div>approaching bus. Not having the two correspond is unhelpful, if not downright perverse.</div><div><br></div><div>Route number alone is insufficient. Not when there can be variant routes.</div><div><br></div><div>Of course, that all presumes the bus company is sane and rational. Unlike my local bus</div><div>company. The 408 is a merger of the 406 Cardigan Town Service and the 407 Cardigan to</div><div>St Dogmaels routes. It displays "Cardigan Town Service and St Dogmaels" for most of its</div><div>route around Cardigan. Then displays "Cardigan Town Service" as it sets off for St Dogmaels.</div><div>Except when it's on a variant school run, when the drivers decide to call it the 405, although it</div><div>isn't, because they think 405 means school service (it doesn't). The 405 is a school service</div><div>between a particular part of Cardigan and the primary school. WIth what should be the 408</div><div>parked next to it, you have to ask the driver if it's the real 405 or the fake 405.</div><div><br></div><div>-- <br></div><div>Paul</div><div><br></div></div></div>